This is just one such data-gathering location tracking changes to the natural environment using contributions of passersby, ...

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A few months before my youngest child graduated high school, a couple of hawks built a nest in a big magnolia tree near our house. For several weeks, the birds swooped through the yard. Sometimes they ...

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...

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Twelve district finalists from Westfield High School and Westfield Technical Academy brought their projects and learning to ...

Monday’s eclipse is bringing together a diverse group of citizen scientists, working to collectively enhance our knowledge of the Sun and Earth’s atmosphere. Reading time 4 minutes Several ...

The acronym STEM sometimes gets a bad rap, mostly because people are unfamiliar with the term and what all it entails.

In the new open-access volume Archives of Science: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century, editors Polina Ilieva ...